Landlord demands access to home to paint and sand, tenant makes them regret it with loud grating music: '[My] landlord tried to strong-arm me into letting him into the home'

It's never a good sign when your errant and aloof landlord suddenly takes a keen interest in shaping the place up. In almost every instance, it's likely that this means you're going to be looking for a new place pretty soon as they're either aiming to move back in themselves, renting the place to a relative—or even selling the place and cashing up. They probably won't divulge this to you directly, fearing that advance notice will lose them their income (—you). In the meantime though, there will be plenty of interruption to your relaxation and chance at a peaceable existence as they show up unannounced intending to renovate the place where you're trying to live, giving it the very best "landlord special" with white paint splashed carelessly over everything. Hey, it wouldn't be the first time, there's probably a story or two I could tell here about the time that my landlord called me from inside my place with no notice to complain to me that the presence of my things was an inconvenience to him.

When this landlord began aiming to do exactly this, suddenly deciding to repaint the interior of the place to prep it for sale. After trojan horsing their way inside claiming they were going to sand the stairwell, they began sanding paint off the walls in the room where the tenant's son slept, without notifying the tenant or even attempting to cover the belongings in the room, leaving the room and everything in it covered in dust and particulates. Frustrated, the tenant decided to intervene when the landlord returned, ensuring that every moment they spent there was agony thanks to some loud and very grating music in the form of Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"